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It’s been 25 years since an album by a Black woman won the album of the year Grammy Award. The year was 1999 and Lauryn Hill’s heroic and artistic solo debut, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, took home the coveted prize. The win also marked the first time a rap-based project won the Grammys’ highest honor. Hill joined an elite club of Black women to win the award: Natalie Cole was the first to do so in 1992 with Unforgettable… with Love, an album in which she covered standards performed by her father…

Grammy 2024 Nominations were announced today. The list was made official and SZA dominated with nine nods. Other major nominees include Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Boygenius, Miley Cyrus, Jon Batiste, Victoria Monét and Billie Eilish. They are competing in the Record of the Year category. Taylor Swift, SZA, Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey, boygenius, Olivia Rodrigo, Janelle Monáe and Jon Batiste are in competition in the Album of the Year category. Here`s looking at the complete list: Record of the Year…

SZA is a different breed of pop star. In even her most glammed-up press shot, she is splattered with blood; in another, she’s coated in a thick film of mud, and on the cover of her second album, the emotional bombshell that is SOS, she sits with her back facing the camera, looking out on a vast ocean, in a nod to a famed paparazzi shot of Princess Diana. These are distancing devices – ways for the 33-year-old musician to armour herself against the leery intensity of fame.It makes sense that she would have an inclination…

It has been quite a year for SZA.“Kill Bill” has become her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The leap from fourth to the top spot was aided by the release of the Doja Cat-assisted remix just over a week ago.SZA’s sophomore album SOS has also spent 10 nonconsecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200. The last woman artist to accomplish such a feat was Adele with 25, seven years ago. The TDE singer recently embarked on her first arena tour, which spanned 17 cities across North America and grossed nearly $35 million. After…

SZA earned nearly $35 million on her first arena tour following the release of her highly-anticipated sophomore album SOS.As reported by Billboard, the SOS Tour grossed $34.5 million, spanning 17 cities across North America and lasting just over a month. Billboard notes the tour averaged 12,812 tickets per night and $1.9 million per show. SZA dropped SOS in December, five years after releasing her Grammy-nominated debut album Ctrl. Shortly thereafter, the “Kill Bill” singer announced on Instagram that it was “time to take…

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SZA continued her chart reign as SOS remained at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the 10th non-consecutive week, Billboard reports.The “Kill Bill” singer entered an exclusive club, whose most recent member is Bad Bunny after Un Verano Sin Ti  spent 13 weeks atop the chart. Prior to SZA, Adele was the last female to top the chart for 10 weeks with her highly acclaimed album, 25. Earlier this month, SZA was named Billboard’s Woman Of The Year, and spoke about her chart dominance. “Right now, I just have extreme gratitude…

Taylor Swift is shouting out SZA’s recently released SOS album amid the continued success of her Midnights single “Anti-Hero.”“What on Earth I love you guys,” Swift wrote in an Instagram Stories update, as seen below. “PS – Been listening to album nonstop. Absolutely adore her music. So much love and respect for her!!”The update from Swift was in response to a report from Billboard revealing that “Anti-Hero” had become her longest-leading No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart after spending eight weeks in the top spot.Image via…

SZA continues her reign atop the Billboard 200 chart, as the R&B superstar’s sophomore LP SOS earned 125,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 12, Billboard reports.SZA’s latest album is the first LP to spend its first five weeks at No. 1 since Adele’s 30, which ruled the chart for six weeks from Dec. 4, 2021 to Jan. 8, 2022. The last female artist to see her R&B album notch five weeks at No. 1 was Mariah Carey, who accomplished the feat with 1995’s Daydream. which spent six nonconsecutive…

SZA’s long-awaited album SOS has remained at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for its fourth consecutive week, Billboard reports.  SOS is the first album to spend its first four weeks in the No. 1 spot since Adele’s 30 stuck around for six weeks from Dec. 4, 2021 to Jan. 8, 2022. It’s also the first R&B album by a woman to spend four weeks at No. 1 since Alicia Keys’ As I Am sat at no. 1 for four weeks nonconsecutively in 2008. The last time an R&B album by a woman stuck around at No. 1 on the…